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Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.
Release date: 1982-09-20
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Orginal language: English
John Hopkins - Writer, John le Carré - Writer, Lee Taylor - Sound, Austen Spriggs - Production Design, Chris Wimble - Editor, Patrick Gowers - Music, Elizabeth Rowell - Makeup Artist, Clare Douglas - Editor, Sheila Beers - Costume Design, John le Carré - Novel, Kenneth MacMillan - Director of Photography, Jonathan Powell - Producer